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Max83  02/11/2013 08:11 PM Report

Chris Hedges talks about former Yugoslavia.

Chris Hedges: Fight GOP Fascism

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUKn19Sg0vo

'' Uploaded on Apr 10, 2010

Hedges urges the poor deal effectively with the right wing's grip on power, counter their fascistic racial targeting of Islam and other scapegoats like immigrants, gays, feminists, and lefties, by getting the public to see it's a deliberate distraction to prevent our realizing the need to replace obsolete economic institutions, a corrupt media, and a criminal government lacking in legitimacy. Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary brought Chris Hedges to their Poverty Scholars Strategic Dialogues on Media and Religion and he delivered a monumental address. Poverty Initiative convened 90 Poverty Scholars--low-income organizers, faith leaders and media makers from over 41 organizations. Check out povertyinitiative.org and help make change happen!

NYC, April 10, 2010. Camera and audio by Joe Friendly''

Max83  02/09/2013 02:22 AM Report

From today very fitting for this interview:

Full Show: Who’s Widening America’s Digital Divide?

February 8, 2013

Internet scholar Susan Crawford explains how media conglomerates put profit ahead of the public interest, and author Nick Turse shares what we never knew about the Vietnam War.

Video Link: http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-who%E2%80%99s-widening-america%E2%80%99s-digital-divide/

''February 8, 2013

America has a wide digital divide — high-speed Internet access is available only to those who can afford it, at prices much higher and speeds much slower in the U.S. than they are around the world.

But neither has to be the case, says Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. Crawford joins Bill to discuss how our government has allowed a few powerful media conglomerates to put profit ahead of the public interest — rigging the rules, raising prices, and stifling competition. As a result, Crawford says, all of us are at the mercy of the biggest business monopoly since Standard Oil in the first Gilded Age a hundred years ago.

“The rich are getting gouged, the poor are very often left out, and this means that we’re creating, yet again, two Americas, and deepening inequality through this communications inequality,” Crawford tells Bill.

Also on the show, journalist Nick Turse describes his personal mission to compile a complete and compelling account of the Vietnam War’s horror as experienced by all sides, including innocent civilians who were sucked into its violent vortex.

Turse, who devoted 12 years to tracking down the true story of Vietnam, unlocked secret troves of documents, interviewed officials and veterans – including many accused of war atrocities – and traveled throughout the Vietnamese countryside talking with eyewitnesses to create his book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.

“American culture has never fully come to grips with Vietnam,” Turse tells Bill, referring to “hidden and forbidden histories that just haven’t been fully engaged.”''

Max83  02/08/2013 07:33 PM Report

Great interview.

I first handily experienced the hospitality of refugees when I stayed with a refugee family for two weeks in their home, after my family helped them to immigrate to Canada from Germany. They were from former Yugoslavia, the husband was Bosnian and the wife was Serbian and they had two young sons.

The husband could not return back to Yugoslavia because he would have been murdered. The persecution was especially severe for him because he as a Bosnian was married to a Serb and maybe even their children would have been killed because they were not considered pure-blooded.

When I stayed with them for two weeks they were the most generous people possible, even though they lived with 4 people plus me in a 1 bedroom apartment only and had very little money.

I wish American billionaires would be more generous and hospitable like that, not just to foreigners, but to their own country women and men.

I noticed that war correspondents are a little ''nuts'' like Mr. Pizzey put it, but I think most are this way in a good way.

Chris Hedges is a good example of this in my opinion. He has taken his experiences of war, famine etc. and instead of letting them destroy him from the inside he uses those experiences for positive activism and for educating his fellow Americans how they can be better human beings:

Chris Hedges: This Is What a Patriot Looks Like

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PNJja1zDpE

'' Published on Jan 25, 2013

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges speaks at the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center banquet Jan. 19, 2013. Hedges and others have sued President Obama and the Department of Defense to squash the National Defense Authorization Act, which permits the government to pick up anybody they wish at any time and hold him however long they want---without charging the alleged offender with a crime and without notifying family members of his or her whereabouts. A federal court agreed and ruled the law unconstitutional; however, Pentagon lawyers immediately made an "emergency" plea to the appellate court, which stayed the law and set a hearing date for Feb. 6. Speaking to the MSPJC in Memphis, Hedges retraced the history of the corporate takeover of democracy and the U.S. government, and he said the only remedy is massive civil disobedience. Hedges' latest book is Days of Destruction; Days of Revolt.--Video by Citizens Media Resource''

SharkswithfrikingLazers  02/08/2013 02:43 PM Report

Everyone sure is chummy.

CBS, PBS, Bloomberg, The New York Times . . . perhaps collusion is not part of the news BUSINESS.

This may explain why Richard Armitage told you Charlie that he watches Al Jazeera, BBC and RTV.

REMant  02/08/2013 02:03 PM Report

CBS certainly offered the best TV coverage of Vietnam. I don't think there's much romance in the news business these days, perhaps in part because housewives like the one mentioned won't have it. Not that I agree with them, but I don't think the business of journalists is to tell stories either. I can't see reporters preferring to hype stuff instead of acquiring the knowledge and experience to deal with the issues posed, unless they are prejudiced or simply naive. But I'll take this opportunity to add that the last few times I've watched CBS Evening News, I've at least not been revolted by it. CBS website spells his name Allen, BTW.